A new season begins Friday against Morehead State, and even though this edition of UNLV basketball also has talented players and plenty of reasons to get excited, there is reluctancy from fans to jump on the bandwagon. While I understand being guarded in your …

This game got ugly fast for the UNLV football team. Air Force scored 24 unanswered points to squash any chances of a victory, doing whatever it wanted offensively against UNLV’s overwhelmed defense in a 48-21 win. Air Force scored on its initial six possessions ...

The way high school sports standings are kept by organizers in Nevada is severely broken. A tiebreaker scenario this week involving six high school football teams in the Division I-A Sunset League is so confusing, some of the league’s coaches spent Monday trying to crack the tiebreaker rules themselves to learn what outcome they will need Friday in the regular season finale to advance to next week’s playoffs. A better solution would ...

Brandon Willis walked off the practice field at Rebel Park last week, joking with younger teammates. They seemed to listen intently to every word the senior defensive lineman said. The 23-year-old Willis understands his role as a veteran on the UNLV football team and realizes this is his last chance to have a meaningful college experience ...

The Clark County School District has pulled the plug on the Moapa Valley-Desert Pines football game on Friday, capping a wild week for Pirates in the flood-damaged area. They didn’t use the chaotic storm aftermath as an excuse and aren’t too thrilled the game was spiked ...

Eddie Davis wanted to play in one last tournament with his AAU basketball team. But he was leaving in three weeks for a junior college in Montana and was advised by his father not to play for Hard 2 Guard last week in the Las Vegas Invitational at Spring Valley. Father knows best ...